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...trailing without its partner. This is the traditional "missing buddy" formation of the U.S. Air Force, a symbol of mourning for lost fliers. On the ground, in a green park just inside the gates of Hurlburt Field, some of the toughest men in the armed services could not suppress their tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Raging Debate over the Desert Raid | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...possible vehicle of a powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here and now, as the arena of a violent formative contest. Judged by the higher standard, academic freedom does not flourish at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Politics? | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...which we descent shaking off the humiliating yolk of western domination world-wide, we draw strength for our struggles. Our perspective is truly Third World. As our pride grows, so does our anger at the ignorance and insensitivity of the larger community at Harvard. We will not continue to suppress this feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Purpose Behind the Proposal | 4/18/1980 | See Source »

...publicize the damage done by these operations all over Africa as well as to initiate worldwide educational campaigns against the practice. The WHO also urged international cooperation. In light of these recommendations, it is a great disservice by professors at Harvard University, and others, to attempt to suppress the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genital Mutilation | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...requires a powerful imagination indeed to suppress an involuntary wry smile when you hear Brustein's Theseus remark, of actors, "The best in this kind are but shadows." Perhaps--just as Shakespeare's play is "only" a dream. At the Loeb, both shadows and dreams seem, if only while the curtain is up, to take on a radiant and tangible form all their...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Out of Discord, Concord | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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